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A typeface discovery platform for free testing and affordable temporary use of fonts https://fontstand.com/apps/. Publishing Fontstand News for in-depth debate about typography https://fontstand.com/news/.
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Fontstand Cooperative now exists. 🚀 After two years of work, it’s officially incorporated in the Netherlands. We’ve opened applications for independent type foundries. Read more, and consider joining us.

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Rafał Buchner’s composition for the 2026 Fontstand Conference in Berlin, photographed by Norman Posselt.
September 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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TYPA has been building a database of its wood and metal type collection. This could help digital type designers today, but they’re using the digital data to make type in physical formats, too. Read Paweł Schulz’s article about what has been going on here: fontstand.com/news/essays/...
A screenshot showing the first thing visitors see when entering the Constellations database. It is a full list of the font families contained in it. The image shows the first six of them: Admiral, Aktsidents Grotesk, Luksus, Appell, Arabella, and Ariston. Screenshot from Robofont showing a .UFO file with photographs of metal type sorts from Bogatör Bold in 48 pt. Close-up photograph showing a metal-type ampersand sort, with ruler units for measurement on the left and bottom sides. The ampersand is from the Tiemann typeface in the 48 pt. size. Screenshot from the public preview of the database website (constellations.typa.ee). It shows the names of 12 typefaces in the database.
September 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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NEW: Dargon from @typetogether.bsky.social, an epic type family inspired by fantasy gaming, in two parts – Dargon, an uncial-inspired set of six display fonts (each named for the schools of magic in a popular role-playing game), and Dargon Text, for body copy or UI.

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Dargon from TypeTogether.
September 10, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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NEW: Shekanj from @tptq-arabic.com is a very special expressive typeface at the intersection of Nastaʿlīq, Ruqʿah, and Naskh styles, exploring the positioning of Nastaʿlīq letterforms along a horizontal baseline. Paired with Lumin Sans Condensed by Typotheque for Latin.

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Shekanj from TPTQ Arabic.
September 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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NEW: Eddi Grotesk from bvh type draws on early, historically rooted sans-serif aesthetics, positioning it as a subtle reinterpretation of the Eddi typeface, while preserving part of its core DNA, blending modern sans-serif clarity with a refined historical sensibility.

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Eddi Grotesk from bvh type.
September 1, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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NEW: Anto Rounded Air from bvh type is the airy, stencil-like version of the base family of the same name, spiced up with mono width proportions and some really clever details, best suited for posters, display use or identity projects.

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Anto Rounded Air from bvh type.
August 17, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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On Fontstand News, @typeoff.bsky.social has just reviewed PampaType’s Gorgias typeface, designed by Manuel López Rocha. He had to wait a whole year to write it, so please check it out here! fontstand.com/news/font-re...
Gorgias, a Fraktur family designed by Manuel López Rocha and published by PampaType. Gorgias, a Fraktur family designed by Manuel López Rocha and published by PampaType. Gorgias, a Fraktur family designed by Manuel López Rocha and published by PampaType. Gorgias, a Fraktur family designed by Manuel López Rocha and published by PampaType.
July 28, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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NEW: Merwede Sans from @boldmonday.bsky.social is a humanist sans companion to its serif sibling, keeping the distinctive structure of true italics and adding two extra weights for elegant book typography and musical notation with an extensive set of OpenType features.

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Merwede Sans from Bold Monday.
July 22, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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NEW: Gagneur, a non-dogmatic French typeface for text, drawn from memory by @veryrobin.me from Tiny Type Co. Questioning history and dogma, the result is a friendly and familiar family, ready for books, catalogues, magazines, and feature-rich enough for use at many sizes. fontstand.com/fonts/gagneur
Gagneur from Tiny Type Co.
July 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Interested in geometric slab serifs and how they developed? A summary on Fontstand News looks into their past and similar typefaces on Fontstand in the present: fontstand.com/news/font-re...
Memphis’s bold style (halbfett) was the first part of the family that the D. Stempel AG typefoundry released. Designed by Stempel’s artistic director Rudolf Wolf, the debt that Memphis paid to Futura is clear when the letters are closely analyzed. For instance, the lowercase a is not only single-storied but the lowercase r is a ball-and-stick form, just like Paul Renner designed for Futura. The printing industry considered that several of Futura’s atypical shapes were too unorthodox, and the ball-and-stick r was quickly replaced. Stempel would soon offer a normal r for Memphis, too. Image from a c. 1934 German Linotype specimen for Memphis digitized by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Stymie Medium, designed by Morris Fuller Benton for ATF. Two all-caps geometric slab serif families. From top to bottom: Irma Slab Bold, Tesla Caps A, and Tesla Caps C. Six designs with “rounded rounds,” from top to bottom: Tesla Slab Hairline, Mortise Light Italic, Irma Text Slab Pro Regular, Produkt Medium Italic, Elizeth Bold, and Pepi/Rudi Black Italic.
July 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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NEW: Milgram from @signaltype.bsky.social is a rounded humanist sans with a hint of nostalgia for the 60s, bringing a useful typeface for display and text with open counters and apertures and low contrast for added readability and a broad language support in 12 styles.

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Milgram from Signal Type Foundry.
July 6, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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“Life is all about improv, and Mitch was all about life. He will be dearly missed, but his ideas will live on in the myriad of ways he expressed them.” You can read the rest of Sebastian Carewe’s tribute to Mitch Paone here: fontstand.com/news/essays/...
Mitch Paone on stage at the Fontstand Conference 2025 in The Hague. Photo: Tom Brown.
July 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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NEW on Fontstand: Maregraphe Collection from CSTM Fonts is a modern serif superfamily inspired by late 19th-century French lettering, in a range of 20 styles from small text (Caption) to super-display (Poster) — plus a variable font. Check out those extreme extremes!

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June 30, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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NEW: Clarinetta and Clarinetta Unicase from supertype® are two parts of an elegant contemporary serif typeface family built on deliberately pronounced serifs and a striking contrast (brought to extreme in Ultra weight), and italics with a flowing stroke and dynamism.

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Clarinetta from supertype®, designed by Jürgen Huber. Clarinetta Unicase from supertype®, designed by Jürgen Huber.
June 23, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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NEW: Chairman from @typotheque.com is a utilitarian neo-grotesque superfamily with four distinctive voices: Display, with clarity and style; Text, adding stronger personality; and Mono and Semi-Mono bringing a different typesetting rhythm. Designed by Nikola Djurek.

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Chairman Display from Typotheque. Chairman Mono from Typotheque. Chairman Semi-Mono from Typotheque. Chairman Text from Typotheque.
June 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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NEW: Canela Arabic from @commercialtype.bsky.social is an Arabic and Latin script typeface expanding the crisp elegance of the original Canela family by drawing inspiration from both the Thuluth and Naskh traditions, with a distinct and expressive presence of its own.

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Canela Arabic from Commercial Type.
June 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Interested in rounded sans serifs from the past as well as today? There is a new summary on Fontstand News, explaining some of their development stages: fontstand.com/news/font-re...
Ornamented, from Robert Besley’s Fann Street Foundry. Published around 1860. Neueste schmale fette Zeitungs-Grotesque from Ferdinand Theinhardt’s typefoundry in Berlin, first published in 1885. JAF Cupidus Extralight Italic, JAF Cupidus Text, JAF Cupidus Text Italic, JAF Domus Bold, JAF Domus Bold Italic, and JAF Domus Titling Extrabold. From top to bottom: Aribau Rounded Black, Aribau Rounded Black Italic, ABC Diatype Rounded Medium, ABC Diatype Rounded Medium Italic, October Pro ExtraLight, and October Pro ExtraLight Italic.
June 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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NEW: Ragu from Nova Type Foundry is the warm, flavourful display typeface you may want to use for branding and packaging, but also for small text, with a soft, rounded construction and generous curves, in six weights with italics, supporting Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic.

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Ragu Pro from Nova Type Foundry.
June 4, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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NEW: JAF Globus from @justanotherfoundry.bsky.social is a modernist typeface with geometric feel, but not built on a strict geometric system. Designed to work at small sizes on screen with a generous white space and adjusted widths, it has a comfortable rhythm in text.

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JAF Globus from Just Another Foundry.
May 28, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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NEW: Kuhlman by DJR reinterprets the expressive lettering style deployed by graphic designer Roy Kuhlman in his book cover designs, trying to capture a bit of Kuhlman’s blend of chaos and consistency of angular letterforms originally cut out of paper or masking film.

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Kuhlman by David Jonathan Ross.
May 22, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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NEW: MD UI from @mass-driver.com is a typeface for interfacing, optimised for word- and sentence-level performance, with an appearance that doesn’t try to be neutral, but doesn’t surprise or distract. Available in three optical sizes: MD UI, MD UI XS, and MD UI XL.

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MD UI XS (top), MD UI, and MD UI XL (bottom), from Mass-Driver.
May 12, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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NEW: CoFo Sans Semi-Mono from @contrastfoundry.bsky.social is the ultimate fusion of CoFo Sans and its monospaced variant CoFo Sans Mono, keeping the typical details and personality, but with subtly adjusted character and horizontal proportions for smoother typesetting. fontstand.com/fonts/cofo-s...
CoFo Sans Semi-Mono from Contrast Foundry.
May 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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NEW: Gregory Text from TypeMates is a contemporary bookish typeface inspired by the historical aesthetic of early Slab Serif metal types, with charming little quirks, chunky, softly curved serifs, and squareish counter shapes, in 7 weights, plus corresponding italics.

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Gregory Text from TypeMates
April 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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On Fontstand News, Mikina Dimunová reflects on the Fontstand Conference that took place a little more than a week ago in Berlin. For those of you who couldn’t make it, hopefully this will give you a feel for the presentations.

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Francesco Franchi opened the conference with his presentation about news design on Friday night. Photo: Norman Posselt. Ariane Spanier presented the process behind several of her recent projects, including a series of artistic statements about borders, designed to conceal a museum-construction site on Berlin’s Kulturforum. Photo: Norman Posselt. Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich from the Berlin design bureau Moniteurs spoke about work they had undertaken for several airports, including Berlin Brandenburg Airport, which many attendees traveled through. Photo: Norman Posselt. On Saturday morning, David Pearson gave attendees a look into his process behind the design of several book covers. Photo: Norman Posselt.
April 20, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Last year, we conducted an independent survey focused on font use and licensing. More than 1,300 respondents participated from a wide community of designers and other font users, and we have now published a short article plus the full survey results on Fontstand News:

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What font users actually want: findings from Fontstand 2025 survey
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April 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM